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Rhetorics and Technologies
New Directions in Communication
Edited by Stuart A. Selber
Foreword by Carolyn R. Miller
Recognizing an increasingly technological context for rhetorical activity, the thirteen
contributors to this volume illuminate the challenges and opportunities inherent in
successfully navigating intersections between rhetoric and technology in existing
and emergent literacy practices. Edited by Stuart A. Selber, Rhetorics and Technologies
positions technology as an inevitable aspect of the rhetorical situation and as a potent
force in writing and communication activities.
Taking a broad approach, this volume is not limited to discussion of particular
technological systems (such as new media or wikis) or rhetorical contexts (such as
invention or ethics). The essays instead offer a comprehensive treatment of the
rhetoric-technology nexus. The book’s first section considers the ways in which the
social and material realities of using technology to support writing and communication
activities have altered the borders and boundaries of rhetorical studies. The second
section explores the discourse practices employed by users, designers, and scholars of
technology when communicating in technological contexts. In the final section,
projects and endeavors that illuminate the ways in which discourse activities can
evolve to reflect emerging sociopolitical realties, technologies, and educational issues
are examined.
The resulting text bridges past and future by offering new understandings of
traditional canons of rhetoric—invention, arrangement, style, memory, and
delivery—as they present themselves in technological contexts without discarding the
rich history of the field before the advent of these technological innovations.
The book includes a foreword by Carolyn R. Miller, the SAS Institute Distinguished
Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication at North Carolina State University.
Stuart A. Selber is an associate
professor of English at Pennsylvania
State University. Selber is the author
of Multiliteracies for a Digital Age and
coeditor of Central Works in Technical
Communication.
Studies in Rhetoric/Communication • Thomas W. Benson, series editor
August 2013, 232 pages, 37 illus.
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